AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) _ The outgoing chairman of the Maine Republican Party says he's investigating reports that "dozens of black people'' unfamiliar to local elections officials showed up to vote in rural Maine towns on Nov. 6.

Charlie Webster made the allegations in an interview on WCSH-TV (http://on.wcsh6.com/REI3Cs).

When asked to name the towns, Webster did not.

He tells the Bangor Daily News he plans to send "several thousand'' postcards to the addresses of voters who registered on Election Day as a way to investigate potential voter fraud.

If some cards come back as undeliverable, Webster says it will prove his theory that people travel to Maine to vote fraudulently.